Although it is nearly impossible to assess all of the costs associated with virus attacks, the immediate cost of locating and removing viruses can be easily quantified. Assuming the network engineer’s yearly salary is $75,000 and he spent 75 hours searching for the in- fected workstations, the loaded labor cost of responding to this incident would have been approximately $3,750. Using Locate the network engineer was able to identify the workstations in approximately 10 minutes for a total cost of approximately $. Because the network engineer was able to locate the workstations quickly, further infection was avoided resulting in additional time savings.
